Call for disability agencies to form coalition

AN international donor agency for disabled person’s organisations wants to form a coalition of the disability agencies in Papua New Guinea.
Disability Rights Advocacy Fund last week sponsored a two-day workshop for organisations under the umbrella of the Papua New Guinea Association of Disabled Persons in Port Moresby.
The workshop was in line with the National Executive Council directive on the Convention of the Rights of Person with Disability.
Programme manager Ross Tip said the workshop was to develop and build capacity for the in-country resource teams.
“This workshop is also to ensure various advocacy project ideas of the national single line and provincial DPOs are combined to form the revised new national advocacy plan for the association from 2021-2015,” Tip said.
Acting deputy secretary Community Development Department Nancy Taule Kavop said the department would always be happy to support the work of the organisations and association.
First assistant secretary Disabilty Konio Doko also shared the same sentiments.
Representatives from groups such as the Women with Disability, Association of Blind and Visual Impaired, the Papua New Guinea Deaf Association, the Papua New Guinea Sign Language Interpreters Association and Paralympic Association of Papua New Guinea all participated in the two-day workshop.